--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Reform all man pages to suppress "hyphen-used-as-minus-sign"
+# warnings of lintian by converting all unescaped "-" to "\-".
+
+while [ $# -ge 1 ] ; do
+ sed -e '/^[^.]/s/--/\\-\\-/g'\
+ -e '/^[^.]/ s/\([^\\]\)-/\1\\-/g'\
+ -e '/^-/ s/^-/\\-/g' < $1 > temp.man
+ mv temp.man $1
+ shift
+done